There is no blog post due this week. Your take home quiz (20 pts) should discuss one of the following questions. A thorough response should be approximately 2 pages. You should hand this quiz in by next week.
Oh--You do not need to read the article in your reader about the Zuni origin story. You can, however, read it if you are interested.
1) Bronislaw Malinowski, in his classic essay Magic, Science and Religion, claimed that each of these was a viable mode of cognition and that most societies exhibit all of them in variable proportions.
In what ways does magical thinking persist in contemporary North America?
In what ways does magical thinking persist in your lives at Columbia?
Is it likely to persist in the future?
2) Religious rituals are religion in action. Describe what in fact is accomplished by religious rituals?
Here's a story that you might find interesting.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/us_elections_2008/7699066.stm
